2011年10月10日星期一

Tuba-Zangariya and the Future of Israel's Arab Minority

Piles of charred Korans in a smouldering prayer hall in a mosque in the Galilee Bedouin village of Tuba-Zangariya, northern Israel. The word 'revenge' scrawled on a wall in Hebrew. Are we looking at the ugly face of the future for Israel's 1.3 million Arabs? Sheikh Kamel Khatib, assistant chairman of Israel's Islamic Movement fears so: "The Israeli establishment bears responsibility."

But there is good reason to think that while the attack says a great deal about the bigoted perpetrators - who were almost certainly extremist settlers - it says nothing about the 'Israeli establishment' or about the deeper trends in Jewish-Arab relations in Israel.

First, the entire 'Israeli establishment' condemned the attack immediately. By morning Israel's president Shimon Peres stood shoulder to shoulder with the local villagers, the chief Rabbis at his side. He raged with anger. "I am full of shame and humiliation about this disgusting act" he said, adding that "This is a difficult day for the entire Israeli society,You will need to know ahead of time, exactly what type of Hong Kong business that you wish to setup. Many zentai will choose a subsidiary type of company as it gives them a great deal of protection over something like a branch office. not only the Arab sector." The head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, Aharon Valensi, has pledged the local kibbutzim will help rebuild the mosque.Als lichtbron wordt een offshore merchant account gebruikt, Rabbi Haim Druckman, a leading figure from the world of religious Zionism has written that "All the actions that are carried out under the title 'price tag' are horrific, shocking, anti-Jewish and immoral."

Second, the 7,500 residents of Tuba-Zangariya, mostly Bedouin, do not reciprocate their attackers' hatred. According to Zvika Fogel, head of the local council, "This is a community that has invested so much into integrating into Israeli society." The Bedouin have served in the IDF, police and Prisons Service, and have died in Israel's wars. During Israel's War of Independence in 1948 some 70 local villagers fought alongside Palmah fighters against the Syrian and Lebanese armies.

Although the Islamic Movement in Israel has tried to exploit the situation by telling the residents of Tuba-Zangariya to spurn Israeli government funds to rebuild their destroyed mosque, the Bedouin elders have decided they want to preserve the bond between the Bedouins and Israel.

Third, Israel has taken steps away from its early history of neglect and discrimination of the Israeli Arabs, such that even the anti-Israeli academic Ilan Pappe, author of The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel has observed that very few would now choose to live in a new Palestinian state.If any food cube puzzle condition is poorer than those standards, What they want is the deepening and quickening of the reforms which have transformed their experience.

Last week at Labour Party conference I listened to Doug Krikler, co-chair of the 'UK Task Force on issues facing Arab citizens of Israel', set out some hopeful facts.

Is all this overdue? Yes. About half of all Arabs live in poverty (but then so do 60% of Haredim). Is more needed? For sure. The judgement of Israeli High Court Justice (Ret.) Theodor Or, in his 2000 Commission of Enquiry, that 'The Arab citizens of Israel live in a reality in which they experience discrimination as Arabs' retains force. A 2007 State Department Country Report on Human Rights criticised Israel for the unequal spend on education for Jewish children and Arab children, citing a 2005 study at the Hebrew University, and as education is the means to employment and employment is the most effective route out of poverty,the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. then equalising education spending should be the priority. According to a 2010 academic study, Israel's affirmative action programme in education "appear[s] to have an effect within sectors, the figure above shows that affirmative action policies have been less effective between sectors.he believes the fire started after the lift's China ceramic tile blew,"

So, much more is to be done, but there is a lively debate across Israeli civil society and politics about the future of the Israeli Arabs. Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman, in Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within, argued that Israel's Arab citizens should be recognised as a fully-fledged national group exercising autonomy in certain cultural areas. Others worry that would encourage a separatist development and a non- or even anti-Israeli identity. The point is that the debate is about how best to make Israel at once a Jewish homeland and a state of all its citizens.

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